Last defendant pleads in NW Pa. man's slaying

MEADVILLE, Pa. (AP) ó The third adult defendant accused of killing a man at his northwestern Pennsylvania home has pleaded guilty to third-degree murder.

Twenty-year-old Alan Watkins, of Harmonsburg, pleaded guilty Thursday in Crawford County Court in the August 2011 shooting death of 46-year-old Ronald Shreffler in Summerhill Township.

Nineteen-year-old Brandon Tracy, of Titusville, and 19-year-old Austin Taylor, also of Harmonsburg, had previously pleaded guilty. Tracy contends he shot Shreffler in a plan to rob him of cash and marijuana ó neither of which the suspects found ó because Taylor held a gun to his head.

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Taylor's brother, 17-year-old Dakota Taylor, has already been prosecuted in juvenile court and will be incarcerated until he is 21.

Tracy, Watkins and Austin Taylor will be sentenced Monday. Tracy faces 25 to 50 years in prison, while Watkins and Taylor face 20 to 40 years.